Also from January 18
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Polls
Should people be allowed to avoid immunizations?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| No | 65% | |
| Yes | 34% | |
| Total | 605 | |
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10:00 a.m.
‘Robin Hood in reverse:’ Brownback’s plan would raise taxes paid by poorest Kansans- 11:07 a.m., January 17, 2012 Updated 3:00 p.m.
- More criticism emerged Tuesday over Gov. Sam Brownback’s tax plan as figures showed the poorest of Kansans would face a huge increase in their tax liability.
2:00 p.m.
Some pigs: City allows potbellied swines as pets- January 18, 2012
- Lawrence city commissioners — even the one who owns a barbecue restaurant — couldn’t resist granting mercy on this pig.
6:00 p.m.
Public input sought on trash, recycling report- January 18, 2012
- Thursday will be trash day for everybody in Lawrence. City leaders are hosting a public input session at 6 p.m. Thursday at City Hall to hear comments about a draft report that makes multiple recommendations about how to change the city’s trash and recycling systems.
All stories
- A Q&A on contested anti-piracy bills
- January 18, 2012
- Online piracy costs U.S. copyright owners and producers billions of dollars every year, but legislation in Congress to block foreign Internet thieves and swindlers has met strong resistance from high-tech companies, spotlighted by Wikipedia’s protest blackout on Wednesday, warning of a threat to Internet freedom.
- KU hires new director for technology center
- January 18, 2012
- Kansas University has hired Rajiv Kulkarni of the University of Utah as its new director of the Center for Technology Commercialization, which serves the Lawrence and KU Medical Center campuses.
- County approves district boundary changes
- January 18, 2012
- A shift in population means a shift in boundaries for Douglas County commissioners.
- Donations pour in for family who lost home
- January 18, 2012
- This time of year routinely can be slow for Eric Marx and his lawn and landscaping company. Then he saw last weekend that Douglas County United Way and AmeriCorps members needed help collecting donated furniture for a Douglas County family of 11 that lost their home west of Lawrence in a Dec. 30 fire.
- KU women notch third Big 12 road win in 65-60 victory over Oklahoma State
- 09:40 p.m., January 18, 2012 Updated 12:26 a.m.
- Aishah Sutherland scored 15 points to go with 22 rebounds, leading the Kansas women’s basketball team to a 65-60 victory over Oklahoma State on Wednesday night in Stillwater, Okla.
- Data show this November to January is 16th warmest in Lawrence since 1909
- Unseasonable temperatures in area have economic, agricultural effects
- January 18, 2012
- The past couple of days in Lawrence notwithstanding, it sure seems like it’s been a pretty warm winter so far.
- Ministers to deliver petitions calling on Kansas Speaker O’Neal to step down
- January 18, 2012
- Two pastors will deliver more than 30,000 petition signatures calling for the resignation of House Speaker Mike O’Neal for an email he forwarded that referred to President Barack Obama and a Bible verse that states, “Let his days be few and brief.”
- Obama rejects Canada-Texas oil pipeline - for now
- January 18, 2012
- Raising the stakes on a bitter election-year fight with Republicans, President Barack Obama on Wednesday rejected a Canadian company’s plan to build a U.S.-spanning, 1,700-mile pipeline to carry oil across six U.S. states to Texas refineries.
- Brownback administration seeks to contain political fallout on taxes
- January 18, 2012
- Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration worked Wednesday to contain the potential political damage from the release of internal figures showing that his sweeping plan to overhaul individual income taxes would increase the collective tax burden for the state’s poorest households.
- Senate panel floats Kansas congressional map
- January 18, 2012
- The chairman of the Kansas Senate’s redistricting committee proposes redrawing the state’s four U.S. House districts by moving Manhattan and Fort Riley into the 1st District.
- Visitor to KU campus to discuss intercollegiate athletics, higher education
- January 18, 2012
- Amy Perko, the executive director of the Knight Commission, will be in Lawrence next week for a dialogue on intercollegiate athletics and higher education.
- KU incubator space fills up with addition of pharmaceutial company
- January 18, 2012
- Ligand Pharmaceuticals, a drug-discovery company, will move into the Bioscience and Technology Business Center at Kansas University, and bring the incubator space on KU’s West Campus to 100 percent occupancy.
- Bleeding Kansas is focus of annual lecture series in Lecompton
- January 18, 2012
- Lecompton’s Constitution Hall State Historic Site will begin its annual “Bleeding Kansas” lecture series at 2 p.m. Jan. 29 with a special Kansas Day presentation on the Underground Railroad in Kansas at the site, 319 Elmore St.
- Annual Eagle Day planned for Jan. 21 at Free State High School
- January 18, 2012
- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Clinton Lake and the Jayhawk Audubon Society are hosting a celebration of bald eagles in the area from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Free State High School, 4700 Overland Drive.
- Brownback’s tax reform adviser named in lawsuit that alleges Ponzi scheme
- January 18, 2012
- Laffer is chairman of Laffer Associates of Nashville, Tenn., and was an economic adviser to former President Ronald Reagan.
- State officials trying to hook senior citizens for fishing, hunting licenses
- January 18, 2012
- Charging older Kansans the $18 fee for a fishing license and $18 fee for a hunting license will help the parks agency maintain its finances, Jennison said.
- Google’s KCK plan for warp-speed internet hits snag
- 10:38 a.m., January 18, 2012 Updated 02:46 p.m.
- Differences over where and how to hang its wires on utility poles have affected Google’s plans to launch its super-speed Internet project in Kansas City, Kan.
- Proposed bill would allow Kansans to donate to arts when paying taxes
- 10:37 a.m., January 18, 2012 Updated 11:18 a.m.
- A proposed House bill would give Kansans a chance to support the arts while paying their taxes.
- Kansas Historical Society surveying water towers
- January 18, 2012
- The Kansas Historical Society is looking for unusual water towers that might be considered important to history.
- Kobach representing self in federal court about how state treats small political parties
- 10:28 a.m., January 18, 2012 Updated 02:50 p.m.
- Secretary of State Kris Kobach is both the defendant and his own attorney in a lawsuit now before a federal appeals court over how Kansas deals with small political parties.
- Kansas woman’s 2003 death reclassified as homicide
- January 18, 2012
- A suspect is in custody in the 2003 death of a Kansas woman whose case was originally considered an accident.
- 3 hearing-impaired pedestrians hit in Olathe
- January 18, 2012
- Three elderly, hearing-impaired pedestrians were injured when they were hit by a car in Olathe.
- Kan. Senate redistricting panel floats new congressional map
- 10:21 a.m., January 18, 2012 Updated 12:04 a.m.
- The chairman of the Kansas Senate’s redistricting committee proposed redrawing the state’s four U.S. House districts Wednesday by moving Manhattan and Fort Riley into the 1st District.
- Jury convicts Colby man of selling mortgaged cattle
- January 18, 2012
- A northwestern Kansas man has been convicted of selling cattle that were mortgaged to the Agriculture Department’s Farm Service Agency and keeping the money.
- Town Talk: Tapas opens Mexican restaurant on Mass. Street; is permit parking on the way for Oread neighborhood?; talk of expanding rental licensing program continues; Landmark to buy Wellsville Bank
- January 18, 2012
- News and notes from around Lawrence and Douglas County.
- Bill aimed at online piracy panned by Internet companies, Kansas Congressional delegation
- 09:56 a.m., January 18, 2012 Updated 02:56 p.m.
- Kansas University graduate Maggie Koerth’s employer, BoingBoing, was one of numerous prominent websites — including Wikipedia and Reddit — that “blacked out” their sites Wednesday in protest of controversial legislation being considered by Congress.
- Statehouse Live: House Republican leaders say Brownback’s tax, budget proposals will be studied with others
- January 18, 2012
- The comments by House Speaker Mike O’Neal, R-Hutchinson, and House Majority Leader Arlen Siegfried, R-Olathe, were made in a prepared statement as details of Brownback’s tax and budget proposals became more widely known and attracted more criticism.
- Veterans panel hears mental health issues
- January 18, 2012
- Funding cuts are making it difficult to meet the increasing needs of veterans with mental health issues, mental health providers and agencies for veterans in Kansas told lawmakers on Tuesday. Advocates told the House Veterans, Military and Homeland Security Committee that an increase in such needs is leading more veterans to commit suicide.
- City commissioners defer action on parking issue for boarding houses
- January 18, 2012
- After nearly two hours of discussion, city commissioners on Tuesday deferred taking action on a request that would have changed the rules for boarding houses in the Oread neighborhood.
- $25,000 from city to help Heartland Community Health Clinic improve billing process
- January 18, 2012
- Lawrence-based Heartland Community Health Clinic will receive a one-time payment of $25,000 from the Lawrence City Commission to help the nonprofit company better bill insurance companies for services provided at the clinic.
- Study looks at how Kansas court system operates
- January 18, 2012
- The conversations Kansas Supreme Court justices are having with each other this month likely are different from the legal issues they are accustomed to deciding.
- Public input sought on trash, recycling report
- Meeting scheduled for Thursday at City Hall
- January 18, 2012
- Thursday will be trash day for everybody in Lawrence. City leaders are hosting a public input session at 6 p.m. Thursday at City Hall to hear comments about a draft report that makes multiple recommendations about how to change the city’s trash and recycling systems.
- Some pigs: City allows potbellied swines as pets
- January 18, 2012
- Lawrence city commissioners — even the one who owns a barbecue restaurant — couldn’t resist granting mercy on this pig.
- Heard on the Hill: Researchers find opposites don’t attract at KU; strategic initiatives report includes recommendations on wooing senior faculty to KU
- January 18, 2012
- Your daily dose of news, notes and links from around Kansas University.
- Plan ahead
- January 18, 2012
- The Jan. 12 Journal-World editorial noted than a South Lawrence Trafficway interchange at Bob Billings Parkway “probably is needed” and “would provide an important access point to Kansas University,” all of which may be true, but the interchange is the cart before the horse. I urge (and have been urging for 25 or so years) the city traffic planners and the university planners, when they are making grandiose plans for the west end of Bob Billings Parkway, to look also at its east end, where Bob Billings Parkway reverts to plain old two-lane 15th Street.
- Real obscenity
- January 18, 2012
- The latest controversy in Afghanistan involves a video of four Marines urinating on the dead bodies of three Taliban terrorists, recently killed by these same Marine snipers. These Marines have been instantly condemned and vilified in our government’s frantic efforts to be “politically correct,” so as not to offend the Muslim world, especially the Taliban! Really?
- Owl observation
- January 18, 2012
- The widespread interest in the snowy owls visiting Kansas this winter is wonderful. However, reports from Clinton Lake make it clear that some uninformed observers are endangering these beautiful, exotic owls by approaching the owls much too closely to watch them and take pictures. Admittedly a thrilling personal experience, but what is the effect on the bird?
- Military hotline could head off conflict
- January 18, 2012
- Last week, the Obama administration warned Iran that it would cross a “red line” if it closed the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow opening at the mouth of the Persian Gulf through which a fifth of the world’s daily oil trade flows.
- District balance
- If Kansas legislators can aim for exact population balance in the state’s four congressional districts, they can do the same for state legislative districts.
- January 18, 2012
- Kansas legislators should try harder to equalize the number of residents living in each Kansas House and Senate district.
- Horoscope for Jan. 18
- January 18, 2012
- For Wednesday, Jan. 18: This year you juggle personal issues and friendships proficiently. Internally, you might be on the verge of a transformation in your life. If you are single, the person you choose today might not be suitable in a year. If you are attached, be patient with your sweetie, as he or she is adapting to your adjustments. SAGITTARIUS makes an excellent healer.
- ‘CSI’ star prepares for departure
- January 18, 2012
- Twelve years on television is an eternity. Marg Helgenberger will leave “CSI” (9 p.m., CBS) after two more episodes, beginning tonight. Her character, Catherine Willows, has been part of the forensics series since it debuted in 2000, outlasting male leads William Petersen and Laurence Fishburne.
- Jayhawks in the NBA
- January 18, 2012 in print edition on B2
- A look at how former Jayhawks fared in NBA action Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012.
- KU’s biggest gains tough to judge
- January 18, 2012 in print edition on B1
- A thought camped in my mind and I decided to write it down before it died of loneliness: More than just the Kansas University basketball players have improved this season. The Allen Fieldhouse crowd has gotten even better too. Louder. Prouder.
- Breakthrough: LHS girls grab needed win in 56-21 blowout
- January 18, 2012 in print edition on B1
- It had been a long six weeks since Lawrence High’s girls basketball team left the locker room after a game with smiles on their faces, indulging in the pleasant aftermath of a victory.
- Three transfers, one goal: Win at KU
- January 18, 2012 in print edition on B1
- One by one, they walked into Mrkonic Auditorium looking the part of proud, polished, prepared college football players.
- KU’s Henrickson on Big 12 play: Nail-biters might be the norm
- January 18, 2012 in print edition on B1
- Check out the way conference play has started for the Kansas University women’s basketball team, and you easily will see why KU coach Bonnie Henrickson is thinking about petitioning the league to change its name.
- FSHS sizzles in record-breaking 77-40 win
- January 18, 2012 in print edition on B4
- At first, Free State girls basketball assistant coach Lauren Kimball didn’t say anything to her players after the game.
- Veritas boys win sixth straight game
- January 18, 2012 in print edition on B4
- Andrew Currier score 17 points, Elijah Penny added 14, and Veritas Christian stretched its boys basketball winning streak to six Tuesday night with a 49-40 victory over Northland Christian.
- LHS bowlers medal at Seaman quad
- January 18, 2012 in print edition on B4
- The Lawrence High boys varsity bowling team placed second and the varsity girls took third at the Seaman quad on Tuesday at Seaman High School.
- FSHS swim team wins BVSW meet
- January 18, 2012 in print edition on B4
- Connor Munk took two individual titles, and Free State High’s boys swim squad won a triangular meet Tuesday at Blue Valley Southwest.
- KU track and field athlete honored by Big 12
- January 18, 2012 in print edition on B4
- The Big 12 Conference named Kansas University junior Andrea Geubelle its Female Indoor Track and Field Athlete of the Week on Tuesday for her performances on Friday.
- Hair and there, Withey changes game for KU
- January 18, 2012 in print edition on B3
- Jeff Withey was quick to accept a fashion tip from his boss last weekend.
- 100 years ago: Wolf hunt organized for area east of Lawrence
- January 18, 2012
- “Everybody is invited to assist in the wolf slaughter.”
- 40 years ago: No-fault car insurance faces fight in Kansas legislature
- January 18, 2012
- Some new plans for changing automobile insurance laws were introduced in the Kansas House today.
- 25 years ago: Bad weather, new tax forms causing headaches
- January 18, 2012
- A heavy snowstorm continued to cause accidents across the region.
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